![]() Long before any living being set foot in the Garden, tales of its existence were told throughout the system. In an unsuccessful effort to replicate the paracausal entity known as the Veil, the Conceptual Mind created the Black Heart, a powerful Darkness-aligned entity of unknown purpose, within the Garden. It is unclear whether the two locations are the same however, Eris Morn writes of a Tree of Silver Wings that was felled in the Black Garden, which would seem to suggest that she believes the Black Garden to indeed be the same as the primordial garden that gave rise to the universe.Īt some point, the Vex collective known as the Sol Divisive came to reside within the Black Garden, transforming it with their architecture and machinery. ![]() The origins of the Black Garden are largely unknown however, it bears many similarities to an allegorical description of the primordial state of reality, itself described as a " garden", in which the Darkness and Light existed before the universe began. This gate may be the means by which Crota and his broods appeared on the moon after being thrown into the Vex gate network. Many years later, a Vex gate was uncovered hidden beneath the Lunar Battlegrounds on Luna. Eventually, the gate at the Valley was destroyed upon the Red Legion's invasion of Mars. During the Taken War, an Echo of Oryx and a coven of Taken broke into the Garden by burrowing a new gate from Tharsis Junction, creating a new separate entrance that was closed sometime afterwards. After the Black Heart was destroyed, however, the Garden became a part of contemporary time and space, accessible from a gateway at the Valley of the Kings on Mars. The Black Garden initially existed on a separate plane that the Vex kept locked outside of time the only known way to access the Garden is through the gate network, requiring the authority of a Gate Lord. The Lunar Black Garden appeared as a misty sky with three Suns along with a planet and its orbiting moon. The sky of the Martian Black Garden initially appeared as a thick green veil of mist, but after the destruction of the Black Heart, it appeared more clear and centered in what appeared to be in a cavern within the Martian landscape. It is even stated that everything that dwells in the Garden becomes symbiotic with it as an extension of its growth, whether it be shedding leaves that fertilize the soil, or the bones or unspoken thoughts of individuals. The Legionary who Uldren spoke to had been exposed to the Garden for an unknown length of time, and ended up having its "secrets" grown into him in the form of thousands of tiny seeds pockmarking his skull, imparting him with knowledge of the Vex. The concepts being whispered there are potentially a contagious "brainstain" hazard. ![]() Prolonged exposure to the Black Garden's environment can be dangerous. Even the Vex there sing ( "faint, wraithlike notes of inhuman clarity") to "see how the Garden changes their song." The Sol Divisive Vex are particularly interested in the Black Garden because its effects on them " them toward what they want to be." Uldren conversing to a Cabal Legionary in Ulurant led to the whispers taking on aspects of Ulurant grammar. Introducing new ideas into its conceptual environment, such as through speech, causes those ideas to "take root" in the Garden. The Black Garden is a place where "everything grows" and where "abstract patterns war for survival, fighting to propagate themselves by preying on each other." Thoughts such as ideas and concepts are carried on the wind in the form of whispers, "sentences with just the beginnings of syntax". When the Sol Divisive Vex arrived, they attempted to control it and impose their own changes through rigorous engineering and earth-moving. However, it was not created by the Traveler. The mesa-like structure in the center of the Garden strongly resembles the Cradle left behind by the Traveler on Io, which was also seemingly a product of the Traveler's terraforming activities. According to Pujari, the Garden is a reflection of the Traveler's actions: when it terraformed Mars, the Garden either came to be or changed in response. ![]() The nature, origin and purpose of the Black Garden remains shrouded in mystery.
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